Inter-species love in the Late Pleistocene? Modern humans and Neanderthals did indeed get it on, according to Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and director of the project to decode the...

An interesting, albeit sad article from Gulf News on the surprising number of fatalities among illegal antiquities hunters in Egypt: Cairo: Early this month, rescue teams spent four days desperately trying to save six Egyptians, who had been...

Energy behemoth Gazprom: marking their territory on the St. Petersburg skyline St. Petersburg, Russia's proposed 400-meter-high Gazprom skyscraper has gotten a lot of flack from architects, cultural preservationists, and even Unesco, and now it...

The Louvre holds five mural fragments illegally chipped off the walls of a Theban tomb in the 1980s and has yet to return them despite promising to do so, according to Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities director Zahi Hawass. Since the famed French...

Archaeologists are finding themselves in the middle of a beaver battle in Minnesota, where there's an argument going on about whether to reintroduce the toothy creatures to the state's blufflands. Environmentalists support the plan, saying beaver...